g6 Report of the President 



of the late Adolf F. Bandelier. In the neighborhood of four 

 hundred volumes are included in the lot. 



A 1785 edition of Cook's Voyages, entitled A Voyage to the 

 Pacific Ocean, Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty 

 for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Vol- 

 umes I and II were written by Captain James Cook, Volume 

 III by Captain James King. An atlas accompanies the edition. 

 This is the gift of Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden. 



A first edition (1837), in six volumes, of a History of the 

 Indian Tribes of North America with Biographical Sketches 

 and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, by Thomas L. M'Ken- 

 ney and James Hall. This unusual work is embellished by 120 

 large colored portraits from the Indian Gallery in the Depart- 

 ment of War at Washington. 



Through Dr. Herbert J. Spinden has come a notable collec- 

 tion of about twenty volumes concerning the language of the 

 natives of the Miskito Coast. 



The Grammar of Ornament, by Owen Jones, published in 

 London in 1868, covers all stages of decorative designing, from 

 the work of savage tribes to the most ornate productions of 

 European peoples. It is fully illustrated with 112 colored 

 plates. 



The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, by Emma H. Blair and 

 James A. Robertson, being explorations by Early Navigators 

 with Descriptions of the Islands and their Peoples as related in 

 Books and Manuscripts, showing the conditions of those 

 Islands from their earliest relations with European Nations 

 to the close of the nineteenth century and translated from 

 originals. This work is in fifty-five volumes, published in 

 Cleveland, 1903-1909. 



The Travels of Peter Williamson Among the Nations and 

 Tribes of Savage Indians in America, written by himself, 

 which gives an account of their principles, religious, civil and 

 military, published in Edinburgh, 1768. 



British Fresh-Water Fishes, by Rev. W. Houghton; this 

 work is illustrated with a colored figure of each species drawn 

 from nature by A. F. Lydon, London, 1879. 



The Lepidoptera of the British Isles, in eleven volumes, by 

 Charles G. Barrett, London, 1 893-1 907. 



